Rustyrat, Splitshot, Nautitroller, and Sk8man are names I have read many post from. From your detailed post I have seen that faster is better most of the time. I am not set up for those speeds. .It appeared that most of the boats I saw Sat. weren't either. I even saw a few porcupines going as slow as I usually do {.don't know why}. With that aside, I know that 90% of the fish are caught by 10% of the fishermen. I won't talk about the beer part of saying of which I do much better. Anyhow thanks for the info and based on what I have read I am considering some changes but a slow troll on a slow day on one of the fingers isn't so bad. So if you pass a small boat with an old man in it having a beer and looking hungry, wave - we may have "talked" on LOU.
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